List of music genres and styles - Wikipedia
This is a list of music genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be disputed and closely related forms often overlap. Larger genres and styles comprise more specific sub-categories.
Classical
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- Andalusian classical music
- Indian classical music
- Korean court music
- Persian classical music
- Ottoman music (Turkish classical music)
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Western classical music
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Early music
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Medieval music (500–1400)
- Ars antiqua (1170–1310)
- Ars nova (1310–1377)
- Ars subtilior (1360–1420)
- Renaissance music (1400–1600)
- Baroque music (1600–1750)
- Galant music (1720–1770)
- Classical period (1750–1820)
- Romantic music (1780–1910)
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Medieval music (500–1400)
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20th and 21st-centuries classical music (1900–present):
- Modernism (1890–1930)
- Impressionism (1875 or 1890–1925)
- Neoclassicism (1920–1950)
- High modernism (1930–present)
- Postmodern music (1930–present)
- Experimental music (1950–present)
- Contemporary classical music (1945 or 1975–present)
- Minimal music
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Early music
Popular
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Main article: Popular music
Avant-garde & experimental
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Main articles: Avant-garde music and experimental music
- Crossover music
- Danger music
- Drone music
- Electroacoustic
- Industrial music
- Instrumental
- Lo-fi
- Musical improvisation
- Musique concrète
- Noise
- Outsider music
- Progressive music
- Psychedelic music
- Underground music
Blues
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Main article: Blues
- African blues
- Blues rock
- British blues
- Canadian blues
- Chicago blues
- Classic female blues
- Contemporary R&B
- Country blues
- Delta blues
- Desert blues
- Detroit blues
- Electric blues
- Gospel blues
- Hill country blues
- Hokum blues
- Jump blues
- Kansas City blues
- Louisiana blues
- Memphis blues
- New Orleans blues
- Piedmont blues
- Punk blues
- Rhythm and blues
- Soul blues
- St. Louis blues
- Swamp blues
- Talking blues
- Texas blues
- West Coast blues
Country
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Main article: Country music
See also: List of country genres
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Alternative country
- Americana
- Cowpunk/Country-punk
- Gothic country
- Roots rock
- Australian country
- Bakersfield sound
- Bluegrass
- Blue Yodeling
- Bro-country
- Cajun
- Canadian country
- Christian country
- Classic country
- Country and Irish
- Country blues
- Country en Español
- Country folk
- Country pop/Cosmopolitan country
- Country rap/Hick-hop
- Country rock
- Cowboy pop
- Dansband
- Gulf and Western
- Hokum
- Honky tonk
- Instrumental country
- Lubbock sound
- Nashville sound
- Neotraditional country
- Old-time
- Outlaw country
- Pop country
- Progressive country
- Regional Mexican
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Rockabilly/Neo-Rockabilly
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Psychobilly/Punkabilly
- Gothabilly/Hellbilly
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Psychobilly/Punkabilly
- Southern rock
- Southern soul
- Sertanejo
- Talking blues
- Traditional country
- Truck-driving country
- Western/cowboy music
- Zydeco
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